Performance Improvement of Edge Expansion Technique for BDD-based Network Reliability Analysis

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronggen Chen ◽  
Yuchang Mo ◽  
Zhusheng Pan
Author(s):  
Bernard Igbafen Izevbekhai ◽  
Norma Farah ◽  
Glenn M. Engstrom

Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) has studied pavement performance associated with various interventions in the road network. In this study, unbonded overlay, a major concrete pavement intervention known for its long service life, was examined. Curve fitting was performed, including a comparison of the current decay curves with previous patterns toward a default performance curve, stepwise regression to identify performance variables associated with and predictive of remaining service life (RSL), and reliability (Weibull) analysis to examine the reliability and other performance characteristics of unbonded overlay in the Minnesota network. Reliability analysis resulted in a RSL (scale parameter) of 36 years, which was reasonably consistent with the 35.5 year RSL derived from the MnDOT Highway Pavement Management Analysis (HPMA). It also provided evidence that the unbonded overlay displays an end-of-life failure pattern as well as a 7-year threshold time to failure (location parameter). MnDOT’s sigmoidal decay model predicted the same expected service life (35.5 years) as did the Weibull analysis process (35.8 years). Stepwise linear regression showed a positive correlation between the time from the most recent rehabilitation (TTR_MR) and RSL. The other explanatory variables including RQI_Spike and time from original construction to intervention (TTR) were found to be non-significant in the prediction of RSL.


Networks ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Van Slyke ◽  
H. Frank

2014 ◽  
Vol 1049-1050 ◽  
pp. 1458-1462
Author(s):  
Rao Bin

The network system reliability research contains a number of problems, such as: Reliability analysis and reliability design, reliability, maintenance and a lot of problems so on. The calculation of reliability of the network is the important area of network reliability analysis, State enumeration method and principle of a class, don't pay the product and method, the factor decomposition method is a classic accurate algorithm of computing network reliability. Due to the difficulty of precise calculation, in the method, appeared and bound method, Monte carol method, the reliability of the approximate algorithm. Compared with the accurate algorithm, approximate algorithm is still under development. So far, no recognized classic algorithms, so the method to improve calculation accuracy, reduce the complexity of the target of the researchers.


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